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Samsung Software– Move to fix

          What more evidence does one need of the weaknesses of Android than its lead vendor moving to fix them. This is what Samsung’s Premium suite...

Apple vs. Samsung. – Cycle mechanics.

          Apple’s legal strategy became clearer on Friday as it moved to include the Samsung Galaxy SIII and the Samsung Galaxy Note II in its legal...

Black Friday – All online.

          The headlines are hiding the realities of a pretty good weekend of retail sales in the US. Purchasing online using PCs, tablets and smartphones saw...

Windows Surface – Early score.

          Windows 8 and the Surface RT have been out for a few weeks now and the early indications are that lift-off has been pretty sluggish....

Nokia Here – Move to where?

          Nokia held an event yesterday to launch enhancements to its mapping offering but it was not clear to me how Nokia itself would benefit in...

Apple vs. HTC – Someone blinked.

          One of the skirmishes is over. Apple and HTC have signed a 10 year license deal dismissing all outstanding patent litigation. As usual no details...

Cheap Tablets – Plenty pain for no gain.

          The arrival of the iPad Mini threatens to disrupt the mid to low end of the tablet market but its price premium is likely to...

Apple and Intel – Birds and stones

          The result of the recent management shake-up at Apple seems to have opened up a series of new avenues that had previously been considered closed....

Japanese Consumer Electronics – Apocalypse Now!

          Things are so bad at Sharp that it may have to ask the Japanese state to bail it out when its $2.5bn of convertible bonds...

Windows Phone 8 – Thirsty horse?

          Microsoft officially launched Windows Phone 8 at its event in San Francisco yesterday with the main question remaining: is anyone actually going to buy it?...